IS MR. HUME '^GCKJD-XATUREDI " Ml 



uaturcd man." It maj be so ; indiscriminate good-nature 

 gets into many scrapes, Ko kinder suggestion, lioweYer* 

 could be made for Jiim than Mr. DrummoncVs— viz. that^ 

 although deprecating the idea of being the tool of others, 

 he is their tool without suspecting it : but surely it would 

 be equally good-natured to phiy at marbles with his 

 grandchildren ; and his best friends would look on with 

 greater pleasure, than while he exhibits himself as a 

 foot-hall for the (//-natured and tlie mischievous to kick 

 at decent peoples beads. The honourable gentleman 

 mmi, however, rather be classed, / think, with the 

 agatho-caco-pli3''sicai,^ — the good-aud-evil-natured, both at 

 once : amiable at Buraley haH inch tied to teaze at 

 Westminster (nor hesitating occasionally— perha[js after 

 a bad day's sport, to send a mahcious shot even from liia 

 country play-ground). 



This is the convenient moral liberty adYocated by 

 Mr. Hume himself Sir James Brooke is with him poli- 

 tically a dehnqnentj but privately, perhaps, a Christian' 

 gentleman. 



Hiere is a "reform'' gainmg ground which repudiates 

 these niceties of an ahnost bygone time ; the urbanity 

 of the urbane, and the honesty of the honesty and the 

 Christianity of the Christian, are looted for now i?i as well 

 as oiii of those august assembhes, which aflect to give a 

 tone to all society, and in which, as a prelude to their 

 deliberations, the Speaker is aimounced to be " at 

 prayei-s." My friend Su- James Brooke, for one, declines 



